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...Cardiff Royal Infirmary, broke down and gasped, I'm all in!" His Royal Highness, too exhausted to greet members of the infirmary staff with Her Royal Highness, was limousined away to rest. The Duke & Duchess of Gloucester indomitably inspected royal estates which belonged to the Duke of Windsor (see p. 27) when he was Duke of Cornwall, and Her Royal Highness christened at Devonport the cruiser Gloucester. The King & Queen came vigorously through a three-day tour of Yorkshire, not making the constitutional mistake Edward VIII made when he toured Welsh slums as King, provocatively exclaimed: "Something must...
...Speech, referring to monies voted by Parliament exclusively to members of the Royal Family other than the Duke of Windsor, thanked the Lords and Commons "for the provision you have made for the honor and dignity of The Crown." It said that the immediate cessation of "pirate" attacks by submarines in the Mediterranean after the Nyon agreement has made the King "happy." His Majesty noted "with satisfaction the strengthening of all three of my defense forces" and hoped that the coming Nine-Power Brussels Conference on China and Japan "may contribute to bring this deplorable conflict...
German intimates of the Realmleader have repeatedly heard him make various versions of the above remark, and last week they were not surprised when Der Führer, having welcomed the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to his Bavarian château, drew royal Edward aside and was seen to engage him for 20 minutes in heated conversation. "The tour of our Fatherland which the Duke and Duchess have now completed," remarked one of the Dictator's aides, "has shown how right Der Führer was in judging that King Edward's abdication would be a serious blow...
...called Hindenburg Hall of the Krupp Works at Essen, measuring 1,000 feet square. In it 7,000 men were employed during the War making artillery, today 3,500 fill it building locomotives. No women are allowed in the Krupp Works-not even the Duchess of Windsor...
...last week wrote a letter to one of his aunts telling her that His Majesty also takes the keenest interest in housing conditions among his subjects. Aunt Alice, Countess of Athlone, promptly released this to the British press which gave it about the same prominence as the Duke of Windsor's interest in housing conditions...